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february 2009 programmes

The International Festival of Sacred Arts Delhi
Calendar FEBRUARY 12TH TO 28TH 2009

Places of Worship Events (free)

DAY	DATE	TIME	LOCATION	EVENT
Thu	12th	6.30 pm	The Attic	Jewish Sacred Music’ by Anna Hoffman
Sat	14th	6:30 pm	Uttara Guruvayoorappan Temple, Mayur Vihar	Kutiyattam - A Masterpiece of Oral Heritage - Sanskrit Theatre
Tues	17th	6.30 pm	Birla Mandir, Mandir Marg	Sankirtan & Raas Lila from Manipur
Wed	18th	6.30 pm	Ladakhi Buddha Vihara, Opposite ISBT	Buddhist Chants
Fri	20th	6.30 pm	Cathedral Church of Redemption Opp. Gate No.35, Rashtrapati Bhawan (adjacent to Gurdwara Rakabganj)	Sacred Music from the Eastern Orthodox Church by The Cosmic Voices from Bulgaria
Fri	27th	7.00 pm	Nizamuddin Dargah	Sufi Qawali
Sat	28th	12.30 pm	Dumdama Sahib Gurudwara, behind Humayuns Tomb	Hymns of Guru Gobind Singh

Siri Fort Events

DAY	DATE	LECTURES 10:00 AM TO 12:30 PM AT SIRI FORT AUDI-III	FILM FESTIVAL 2 TO 4 PM AT JAMIA, ARAFAT HALL	WORKSHOPS 1 TO 3 PM AT SIRI FORT AUDI-III	Ticketed PERFORMANCES 6:30 TO 9:00 PM AT SIRI FORT MAIN AUDI
Sat	21st	Sacred Art Organized by Kathryn Myers, Dept of Art, Univ of Connecticut	xx	1) Gospel Music 2) Sacred Drumming 3)Yoga Dance Therapy	1) Sengey Tsewa (The Revelry with the Lion) Buddhist Chants from the High Himalaya recited by the nuns of Druk Gawa Khilwa Abbey 2) Sufi Trance from Aleppo Classical Arabic Music from Syria by Alkindi Ensemble
Sun	22nd	Sacred Sounds Organized by Shruti Foundation	xx	1) Vedic Chanting	Intro to Sacred Sounds by Dr Karan Singh 1) Song of the Eternal Universe The Bauls of West Bengal with Susmit Bose 2) A century of Gospel Music LaVon Hardison & Darriel Menefee
Mon	23rd	Sacred Spaces Organized by Geetanjali Chanda, Womens Studies Dept Yale Univ	1) Chalo Hamara Des 2) Scribbles on Akka	xx	1) Dancing to the Gods Sankirtan & Raaslila by Artistes of Jawaharlal Nehru Manipur Dance Academy 2) Djandjoba – The Big Gathering by the Dafra Drum, a West African Drum & Dance Ensemble
Tues	24th	Sacred Poetry Organized by Ashok Vajpeyi, Chairman Lalit Kala Akademi	1) Oceans of Wisdom 2) Eyes of Stone 3) Basant	xx	1) Sacred Music from the Steppe by Chirgilchin Master Throat Singers from Tuva, Russia 2) Nirgun and Sagun, a Hindustani Classical recital by Madhup Mudgal
Wed	25th	Sacred Sites Organized by Rohit Jigyasu for UNESCO & ICOMOS	1) Paradise on the River of Hell 2) Khel 3) Muharram	xx	1) In Search of the Divine A Bharata Natyam performance by Rama Vaidyanathan 2) Choir Acapella a performance by Cosmic Voices from Bulgaria

www.sacredartsfestivaldelhi.org

Tickets: Season Tickets Rs 2000, Rs 1000 and Rs 400 (students only)

Daily Tickets Rs 500, Rs 250 and Rs 100 (students only)

Tickets for performances only. All other events are free

saturday 31^st january (Opening 6.00 pm to 8.30 pm) to saturday 7^th february
11 am to 7 pm (Sunday 2 to 7 pm) – ‘PIXOGRAPHIX ART’ an exhibition & sale of Limited Edition prints by Khushroo Kalyanwala

As a fairly serious collector of art, and with the Art realm booming in India, it pained me to see a plethora of art available by known and unknown artists, with a recent trend of works continuously being titled as “Untitled” – especially non figurative abstract works. It can be endlessly debated whether today’s non figurative Abstract Art is just a composition of varied colours and forms, composed through various mediums OR is it the culmination of an expression of a deeper meaning and understanding of the artist. We will never know, because we don’t ask and artists don’t like being asked. My take on this would be, it may be a great visual, but it may not have a specific meaning. You make your own meaning or appreciate it for what it is. In fact if you remove the signature which is the only orienting symbol you may be surprised that viewing it upside down or sideways may actually be more meaningful to you. Abstract Art is very much like Jazz Music. At times you may or may not understand the music, but the musicians who compose it & play it certainly do. And I haven’t seen a Jazz Album called “Untitled” with the numbers within called “Untitled” too.

“Art is not the truth, but a lie to help us detect the truth”. ‘Pablo Picasso’ and the French Literary critic ‘Roland Barthes’ commented that “….. photography was always being tormented by the ghost of painting”.

………. And therefore it brings me to my art form where I have combined both – the technique & effect which is Seen thro’ a lens as the ‘Truth’; Represented thro’ a medium as a ‘Lie’ – “The Abstract Haze of Reality”. Increasingly ‘Art’ is not only the end product; but the conceptualizing, the execution, and the presentation as a whole. In this exhibition, photography is only the initial medium which captures the essence of what the final product could be. The subject matter is its colour, texture & composition as seen through the eyes of an Architect-Designer. The pre-conceived composition of the image, the visually rendered effects, and the unconventional print medium, all lend themselves to abstracting the subject and abstracting the concept of photography itself, where it is only one of the mediums used to express the final “Mixed Media” like images.

All the work will be limited editions restricted to 5 prints of each image and broadly categorized into a) Landscape & Nature b) Architectural c) Inanimate objects.

Khushroo Kalyanwala is an Architecture graduate from the School of Architecture, (CEPT), Ahmedabad. He has also studied and worked on Interior Design and Architectural Metal Production and Installation. He is a collector of a large range of Collectibles and Art as well as a photographer and a painter.

He has recently exhibited similar works at No. 5, Windmill Gallery at Ayanagar Village, New Delhi from 6^th – 20^th December 2008, and this is his 2^nd Exhibition in Delhi.